James Clemens (
fl. 1750–1775) was a
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...
,
England
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merchant and shipowner, and
Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
Life
Clemens made three voyages to
Angola
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in the 1750s, in addition to other slave runs,
in 1767 he sent the ''Ranger'' under William Speers to acquire slaves in Angola and take them to
Barbados
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. Also in 1767 he became a member of the town council of Liverpool, and was, from 1775 to 1776, the Lord Mayor.
While Lord Mayor he presented St Pauls, Stoneycroft with a two
cwt (104 kg) bell.
References
External links
Touhy papers*
English merchants
18th-century English people
People from Liverpool
English slave traders
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